In an effort to encourage the creation of new applications, Nanaimo is hosting an Open Data Hackathon on April 30. The city will open up its public data and allow computer programmers free access to it. The goal of the event is to see what kind of creative projects developers can create with the data.

Via Nanaimo, B.C. hosts ‘hackathon’ to help improve local apps.

See also:

• OpenDataBC
• How Google Earth Ate Our Town (2008)